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The Mesopotamian creation epic Jiang reads as propaganda for sky-god hierarchy and the divine ordering of civilization.
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Enuma Elish
The Mesopotamian creation epic Jiang reads as propaganda for sky-god hierarchy and the divine ordering of civilization.
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Glossary
The Mesopotamian creation myth Jiang uses to contrast violent servitude with Egyptian divine benevolence.
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In Jiang's reading, Enuma Elish encodes the sky-god inversion by having Marduk kill the mother goddess Tiamat and build the ordered world from her divided body.
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Jiang says Enuma Elish recasts humans as slaves created to serve and free the gods, reversing an earlier understanding in which gods served, helped, or loved humans.
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Jiang compares Mayan divine-service mythology to the Enuma Elish and Catholic Church, arguing that multiple religions imagine humans as servants or slaves of God.
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In Jiang's telling of the Enuma Elish, Tiamat is salt water, Apsu is fresh water, Apsu plans to kill the noisy younger gods, and Tiamat then raises an army after Apsu is killed.
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Jiang says the Enuma Elish embeds three mythologies: Tiamat and Apsu creating the world, the gods inhabiting it, and Marduk creating the universe through victory over Tiamat.
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"They just took clay from the riverbeds, okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a reed, and you write down some marks..."
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"Now what happens afterwards is really interesting because after he kills Tiamat, the mother goddess, he takes her body, and then from her body,..."
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"Okay? Fresh water, of course, is the river. Salt water is the ocean. Okay? When they come together, they create all possible life, including..."
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"He appointed the year, marked off divisions and set up three stars each for the 12 months. Okay? So he's basically building a calendar...."
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"And now, humans become slaves to the gods. Beneath the celestial parts whose floor I made firm, I will build a house to be..."
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"Okay? They bound him, holding him before Eo. They inflicted the penalty on him and severed his blood vessels. From his blood, he created..."
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"...gods, all right? And again, this is very similar to the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, where the god Murah creates humans so..."
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"Eventually, Set decides to poison Horus. But before he can do so, Horus first poisons him. And Horus becomes king. And he gives Egypt..."
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"He creates the entire universe basically. From the body of Tiamat. After that. The gods all decide to rest in peace. But they need..."
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"He warns. She warns her children. The gods get together. And they kill Apsu. Tiamat is enraged by the death of her consort. And..."
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"die if his people die, but if your people live on because of your contributions, then you'll remember forever. You'll become immortal, okay? And..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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